AMHERST, Mass. – Two high-tech health researchers at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst have received a $1.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a wireless device, worn like a necklace, that aims to transform the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia.
To mark International Pronouns Day, an annual event that seeks to call attention to the importance of sharing and respecting pronouns, UMass Amherst is unveiling the ability for students, staff, and faculty to have their pronouns appear in People Finder, the university’s public, online directory.
The change to People Finder will go live on Friday, Oct. 18. (If you are unable to see your pronouns in People Finder after Friday, you need to ).
A team of researchers headed by Michael Zink, an engineer at the ³È×ÓÓ°Ôº Amherst, will develop a testbed for research and development of new cloud computing platforms thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. The collaborative project with Boston University and Northeastern University could reach a total of $5 million if fully funded after a review by the NSF in three years. The funding for UMass Amherst is $888,412 for the first three years.
UMass Dartmouth students more than doubled their participation in the 2018 mid-term elections compared to the 2014 mid-term, according to a recent study, similar to national trends indicating increased voting among college students.
At UMass Dartmouth, 34.6 percent of students voted in 2018 compared to 16.9 percent in 2014. In addition, the voter registration rate for UMass Dartmouth students rose from 70.6 percent to 77.8 percent.
Amir Mitchell, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine in the Program in Systems Biology, has received the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support research into cellular decoding of signaling dynamics.
Dr. Mitchell will use the five-year, nearly $2.1 million grant to study how intracellular dysfunctions, as mutations, corrupt information encoding and which cellular processes need to be targeted in order to restore proper encoding.
A new study by researchers at UMass Medical School and the University of Queensland in Australia examining a retrovirus in koala bears reveals new insights into the genetic evolution of vertebrates, according to media reports in the New York Times and STAT.
UMass Medical School received a $365,000 grant to collaborate with the to examine the clinical and economic value of future therapies to treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Jerry Gurwitz, MD, the Dr. John Meyers Professor of Primary Care Medicine, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and executive director of the Meyers Primary Care Institute, will lead the research.
Today, October 10, is World Mental Health Day, and , the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, released an on suicide prevention to mark the day. Two UMass Boston Counseling Psychology PhD candidates, Justin Karter and Zenobia Morrill, contributed to that statement, compiling the background research from which the statement is based.
Assistant Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences has received a two-year, $154,000 for her research of vascular health, the health of the blood vessels that provide blood to your tissues.
Associate Professor Robert Fisher (Physics) was part of an international team that recently published a research article in that discovered how light reacts after a unique type of supernova.